Hidden in Plain Sight
Author | : Rachel Stephens |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1682262332 |
"A long-overdue study of the depiction of slavery in nineteenth-century American art and visual culture, Hidden in Plain Sight investigates the relationship between proslavery politics and the visual record. By examining a vast array of Civil War-era artworks that champion the institution of enslavement and connecting them with the abolitionist materials to which they respond, Rachel Stephens traces themes of concealment and silence through paintings, photographs, and ephemera and explores how the visual canon of high art was used to cover up, control, and reshape the discourse surrounding the United States' most odious institution"--
The War Hits Home
Author | : Brian Steel Wills |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813920276 |
In 1863 Confederate forces confronted the Union garrison at Suffolk Virginia, and an exhausting and deadly campaign followed. Wills (history and philosophy, U. of Virginia-Wise) focuses on how the ordinary people of the region responded to the war. He finds that many remained devoted to the Confederate cause, while others found the demands too difficult and opted in a number of ways not to carry them any longer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author | : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674002760 |
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Virginia and the Great War
Author | : Lynn Rainville |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2018-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476671923 |
Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles--Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic gardeners. More than 100,000 were drafted--more than 3600 lost their lives. Almost every city and county lost men and women to the war. The author details the state's manifold contributions to the war effort and presents a study of monuments erected after the war.
Defending the Old Dominion
Author | : Stuart Lee Butler |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0761860398 |
Defending the Old Dominion describes historical events in Virginia during the War of 1812, examining how Virginia's militia was organized, supplied, and financed by the Commonwealth. The book discusses the militia's unpreparedness in training, its lack of adequate ordnance and arms, and how that affected its ability to defend the state against British incursions during the war. Political activities of the Virginia legislature and the U.S. Congress are examined with special reference to how the state financed the war and its relationship with the U.S. government. The book includes the fascinating story of nearly two thousand former slaves who fled to British ships to fight in Virginia with British forces.
Arming the Confederacy
Author | : Robert C. Whisonant |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2015-02-21 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319145088 |
This is a fresh look at the American Civil War from the standpoint of the natural resources necessary to keep the armies in the field. This story of the links between minerals, topography, and the war in western Virginia now comes to light in a way that enhances our understanding of America’s greatest trial. Five mineral products – niter, lead, salt, iron, and coal – were absolutely essential to wage war in the 1860s. For the armies of the South, those resources were concentrated in the remote Appalachian highlands of southwestern Virginia. From the beginning of the war, the Union knew that the key to victory was the destruction or occupation of the mines, furnaces, and forges located there, as well as the railroad that moved the resources to where they were desperately needed. To achieve this, Federal forces repeatedly advanced into the treacherous mountainous terrain to fight some of the most savage battles of the War.
John Marshall
Author | : Jean Edward Smith |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2014-03-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466862319 |
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 It was in tolling the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States," as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed." Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist, scholars; soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much for his country, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on every page.
Virginia's Historic Courthouses
Author | : Margaret T. Peters |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780813916040 |
They examine historic structures ranging from the Essex County courthouse (1729) and the King William County courthouse, built ca. 1725 and one of the oldest public buildings in continuous use in the nation, to the newer historic courthouses such as Richmond's massive Supreme Court/State Library Building, dedicated in 1941.